Contessa Gayles
Directing
Contessa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, socio-political movement, healing, liberation, and radical imagination, with a focus on race and gender.
Known for
Credits
6- 2024The DebutantesMovieProducer · Director
- 2024Songs from the HoleMovieDirector · Producer · Editor · Writer · Director of Photography
- 2023Founder GirlsMovieProducer · Director
- 2022For Our ChildrenMovieDirector of Photography
- 2020SurgeMovieCinematography
- 2018The Feminist on Cellblock YMovieDirector of Photography · Director · Editor